Toylor,generally considered the "father of scientific management",pioneered the development of time and motion studies.Today,scientific management is frequently referred to as pseudo-scientific management because of its conceptualization of people as merely extensions of machines-as human interchangeable parts of a large impersonal production machine. Premised on the notion that there was "one best way"of accomplishing any given task,scientific management sought to increase output by discovering the fastest,most efficient,and least fatiguing production methods.